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Engineer Brigade, 40th Infantry Division
Headquarters and Headquarters Company


Organized 3 August 1917 in the California National Guard at Santa Barbara as Battery C, 2d Field Artillery Regiment
 
Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
 
Reorganized and redesignated 24 September 1917 as Battery C, 144th Field Artillery, an element of the 40th Division
 
Demobilized 29 January 1919 at San Francisco
 
Reorganized and Federally recognized 27 May 1930 in the California National Guard at Santa Barbara as Battery E, 143d Field Artillery
 
Redesignated 14 April 1936 as Battery C, 196th Field Artillery
 
Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 2d Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; expanded, reorganized, and, redesignated 21 August 1940 as the 144th Field Artillery with Headquarters at Santa Barbara
 
Battery C, 144th Field Artillery, inducted, into Federal service 3 February 1941 at Santa Barbara (remainder of regiment - hereafter separate lineage)
 
Reorganized and, redesignated, 8 February 1943 as Battery C, 980th Field Artillery Battalion
 
lnactivated 13 November 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts

Reorganized and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 at Santa Barbara as Headquarters Battery. 981st Field Artillery Battalion; Service Battery, 981st Field Artillery Battalion, organized and Federally recognized 3 March 1947 at Santa Barbara
 
Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 981st Field Artillery Battalion, ordered into active Federal service 1 September 1950 at Santa Barbara
 
(Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 981st Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS], organized and' Federally recognized 2 September 1952 At Santa Barbara)
 
Released 30 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters Battery and, Service Battery, 951st Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
 
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1954 as Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 225th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
 
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1959 as Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 144th Artillery, elements of the 40th Armored Division
 
Headquarters Battery and Service Battery consolidated 1 March 1963 and consolidated' unit recognized and redesignated as Headquarters and Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 144th Artillery, an element of the 40th Armored Division
 
Reorganized and redesignated 29 January 1968 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 144th Artillery, an element of the 40th Armored Brigade
 
Redesignated 1 May 1972 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery
 
Relieved 13 January 1974 from assignment to the 40th Armored Brigade and assigned to the 40th lnfantry Division

Converted and' redesignated' 1 December 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Engineer Brigade, 40th lnfantry Division
 
HOME STATION: Santa Barbara
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I
Streamer without inscription
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
Korean War
Second Korean Winter
Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
 
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action along the MEUSE RIVER
 
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA
 
 
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
 
 
15 June 1994

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